Guest Art: Alex Hobbs
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/guest-art-alex-hobbs1
Of Bags and Tea
AnonymousThis isn’t so much a “horrible working conditions” story, but one I found hilarious nonetheless.
I worked for a very large electronic manufacturer based in Japan and was on the QA team for their game console. I was stuck on the floor for a first person shooter that has already been released, but was mediocre at best. It was a mil-sim game that was decidedly a rocketfest.
Anyway, the Vice-President of this very large corporation decided to drop by for a visit. We’d been warned beforehand of this visit. What we weren’t warned about was that the VP decided to drop in one of the matches we were in (testing connectivity issues with another country). We were given a quick “don’t do anything stupid” talk, so we played around on the game like you were “supposed to”.
A few minutes later, another call came down to cut loose. So we did, instantly turning the battlefield into chaos. The VP, needless to say, died very quickly. But what did happen, is one of the testers ran over to the VP’s body and teabagged it (as was the custom in those days).
Not a full minute passed before the test lead burst into the bay and screamed his lungs out, demanding to know who did it. None of us spoke, since we didn’t know who did the deed and the person who did it didn’t speak up.
So, after having a job where I got to play video games for a whole month, our entire section was unceremoniously fired.
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Low paying job with long hours. The VP is getting deez nuts.
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/17735
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/who-hired-whom-trumps-who-does-what
I'm wondering if New Web Guy and New Boss were also pals, and that's why New Boss had hired New Web Guy and was so defensive about it.
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/you-got-h.r.d
Note that this tale is apparently a response to this tale from January 2013:
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/miscommunication
So The Trenches has about a 22 month backlog of tales.
Anyway, again no new comic on Thursday, but a new tale:
http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/one-does-not-simply-walk-into-bugfixes
It seems like the thing that would make sense would be too try and move the report generation and the testing machine off of such old equipment, but that might've taken more programing time and knowledge than the author had.